Fintech Strategies: Build, Buy or Partner

Panel Discussion Date & Time:
October 15, 2021
11:00 AM CST
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Panel Discussion Description:
All financial service organizations that want to offer and/or utilize a fintech solution must determine one of three paths: Build, Buy or Partner.  This panel discussion will discuss how organizations can evaluate the current fintech needs, marketplace and potential opportunities.  Further, the panelist will discuss how enterprises can partner with venture capitalist firms to gain strategic insight into the dynamic fintech marketplace and learn about upcoming fintech trends.

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Jean-Philippe is the Chief Technology & Strategy Officer of Panini and has over 25 years of experience in the Financial, Fintech, Telecom, and Retail sectors. Over the course of his career, he has consistently guided companies globally to transform in expending their activities to new territories and in bringing innovative Technologies to market.
He is passionate about growing companies in the technology space, about developing people to perform in an ever-changing world.

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Marla Sofer is part of the Enterprise Commercial CTO team at Microsoft, leading Cloud for Financial Services technical delivery. She has deep experience as a client, vendor, and partner spearheading digital transformation efforts across banking and capital markets, and is passionate about democratizing financial services through scalable technology.

She dove into Fintech in 2015, and has led strategic partnerships and third party oversight functions at Jemstep, Xignite, and Lending Club. Prior to that, she was responsible for institutional relationships with banks, data aggregators, and index licensors at BlackRock and with asset and wealth managers at J.P. Morgan. She is actively involved in diversity and inclusion efforts and has an MBA from Rutgers and BA from the University of Texas at Austin.

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